Wednesday’s Headlines: No Impeachment News Here Edition

Look, we’re news junkies like anyone else, but until Nancy Pelosi impeaches Donald Trump for the high crime of never riding a bike, we’ll stay focused on fighting for livable cities and will leave D.C. politics inside the Beltway. As far as we’re concerned, Democrats should have started their hearings at the first sign of trouble: When Trump ordered the removal of a Capital Bikeshare rack from the White House grounds.

As an aside, StreetsblogUSA freelancer Aaron Short’s delicious new oral history of Trump (right, co-written with Allen Salkin), “The Method to the Madness: Donald Trump’s Ascent as Told by Those Who Were Hired, Fired, Inspired — and Inaugurated” (All Points Books) does not feature a single recollection of Trump having ever ridden a bicycle.

But for now, we’ll let the pundits thrash it out on cable news. Here’s today’s news digest:

Gothamist published former Streetsblogger Brad Aaron’s overview of the city’s parking crisis — and by “crisis,” we mean there is just too much damn parking in this town.

We're going to see a lot of stories about Donald Trump and infrastructure in the next few months, and this reporting will be heavily influenced by a message that has been honed and perfected by the American Society of Civil Engineers. It will be important to see through these arguments and view the Trump infrastructure plan with clear eyes.

Photo: CS Muncy/Flickr via Gothamist. The police department confirmed this morning that no criminal charges have been filed against the bus driver who struck and killed a woman riding a bike on Delancey Street Tuesday afternoon. (The police have not released the identity of the victim, since the family hasn’t been notified yet.) "I don’t […]

Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. Last year offered lots of case studies for those of us working to make the case for protected bike lanes. With the explosion of protected lanes in the United States, we have far more […]